A weight of silver may be an obolus, the 360th part of a mina.]
[Footnote 10: The "akli," who were at the royal court, may have been legists.]
[Footnote 11: All these are formulæ solennes, as in the Roman law.]
[Footnote 12: Obscure.]
TRANSLATION OF AN UNEDITED FRAGMENT
Five-sixths of an artaba[1] of corn sows an arura, a field situated on the Euphrates.
….adjoining … wide … adjoining … a field in great measure … Zirbet-u-Alzu … and for the days to come he has given … this table … sin-idin … son of Tuklat-habal-Marduk, Governor of the town of Nisin. Bani-Marduk, son of Tuklat … Malik-kilim, son of Tuklat … Chief of … An-sali … son of Zab-zib-malik … Malik-habal-idin, of the town of Balaki … Chief of Sin-idin-habal … May he cause him to perish … and his offering.[2]
[Footnote 1: The artaba was 3 epha, 18 hins; the mentioned quantity of 15 hins necessary to seed this very fertile field is only 79 pints.]
[Footnote 2: Dr. Oppert copied this text twenty years ago; he does not know whether since that time any other piece of the stone has been discovered.]